How are Hyperspace Lanes created?

[@prkr07]

Another organization in Legends was the ExplorCorps branch of the Jedi Service Corps. Basically, even if you failed your Initiate Trials, you could still remain in service to the Order by going out and providing a service to the public; in the case of the ExplorCorps, you could explore and map the galaxy, as well as conduct archaeological missions to discover/rediscover sites and artifacts strong in the Force.

[@overlordmgcover2262]

I still have the book of the jedi were this had a section. Didnt seem like a bad deal. Still be called a Jedi, do something useful and exciting.

[@MDE_never_dies]

If I was allowed to have a family I would do this

[@ItsAVolcano]

It also connected with the skywalkers of the Chiss, force-sensitive women who were used to plot their ways through unknown space.

[@jaybird0312]

This sounds better than being a Jedi

[@itty_224]

#askeck there's a scene in the clone wars episode "Cat and Mouse" where Admiral Yularen talks about the battle of malastare narrows, which was between him and Admiral Trench and took place before the clone wars. The battle was supposedly fought between republic and corporate alliance ships, and was resolved by a "jedi task force". Considering how vague this piece of lore is, what do we actually know about the pre-war republic military? And more generally, what did warfare before the clone wars look like?

[@robertnelson9599]

Before the Clone wars, the Republic’s “Military” consisted of Jedi and Judicial Forces. Although there were few large armies fighting after the Ruusan Reformation.

[@Olochgu]

Before the clone wars planets were responsible for their own protection, so they would either train their own security forces or hire mercenaries. This is btw. the reason most CIS ships are not controlled by a droid brain instead of having droid pilots, because many of those ships were intended to be sold to other planets (or corporations) that would staff them with their own personal. Back then a republic fleet would have been an assortment of ships affiliated with planetary security forces, likely from the vicinity of where they were needed, and temporarily placed under a central republic command. Corporate fleets of course would be the private fleets of certain corporations, those were often better put together than republic fleets and better trained. But as said before, large scale engagements like we see them all the time in the clone wars and the galactic civil war were incredibly rare, even during the republics war with the Nihil there was only a very small amount of such large battles. Most battles before the clone wars only involved at best a couple dozen ships, all a lot smaller than the capital ships we got used to with the Republic and the Empire, and it was usually local security or corporate fleets dealing with pirates and raiders.

[@Morgomir09]

As kek :P i read it that way at first

[@THECHEESELORD69]

⁠@@Olochguyeah I was about to mention the nihil and the longbeams and vectors, but good to see that someone else said that!

[@yarnickgoovaerts]

#AskEck If you’re a ship designer at KDY and you are tasked with designing a new ship for the imperial star fleet. Not a ship to replace anything important, so no imperial III for example, but something new to add to their fleet. What would that ship be? How would it look like and what purpose will it fulfill?

[@jeffagain7516]

Thanks for this one Eck! ALL your vids are really great but fortunately, many of them also clarify some headscratchers we all appreciate you providing in-depth info on. I found it pretty novel that (as mentioned in the Essential Atlas) after the fall of Sidious' Empire (round one), there was a scramble by many pirates (and others) to scoop up and steal many "S-Thread Boosters", such as the ones used for the Sanctuary Pipeline) and put them to their own nefarious purposes and/or sell them to agencies of others (like The Hutts). :)

[@EckhartsLadder]

I don't remember that detail, thanks for that

[@yodaslovetoy]

When a mummy hyperlane and a daddy hyperlane love each other very much.....

[@Vulcar2500]

No way 💀

[@rea280]

I busted to this scenic imagery and now my discharge is floating through hyperspace waiting to impregnate a hyperplane sporing a huperplane (human+hyperplane hybrid) that will now coat each bypassing ship in fruity thick coom so they can go on to impregnate other hyperdrives.

[@isaackim7675]

I thought that was the Big Bang?

[@TheHughsie]

Hahahahahaahahah 😂

[@ctfireinsky9554]

Does it have anything to do with someone's Black Hole?

[@GahallsTheOneAndOnly]

Been watching the channel for so long and the Contant is always so high-quality. Another banger

[@wujek7616]

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[@captainnicehd5768]

On the subject of hyperspace routes, The Essential Atlas also mentions "Praediums"; short hyperlanes that are generally disconnected from the larger, more well-traveled routes. I imagine that its more economical to incorporate such short lane snippets into a new hyperspace bypass by connecting them to the larger network with s-thread boosters rather than to brute-force an entirely new route from scratch.

[@liamthompson8563]

#Askeck I wish you would explain Shoretroopers. I can't understand why the Empire would create a Stormtrooper just for making sandcastles.

[@jon6309]

Hmm good point but I think with the diversity of worlds under Imperial Rule, the Empire wanted troops to specialize in certain terrains to enforce it’s military might! Having a trooper trained in a certain environment is more effective than trying to train all troopers to adapt to all types of environments.

[@ascensionindustries9631]

Somebody gotta sell toys.

[@robertnelson9599]

In Legends, The Empire had scuba, swamp, magma, jungle and space troopers, so it makes sense.

[@jibril2473]

@@robertnelson9599don’t forget Jettroopers from Jedi Academy

[@ImmaSpam__________________Can]

They served thee purpose of coast guards id assume

[@christianabraham6069]

Eck you were literally my childhood I literally recently started watching again and I’m still in love thank you eck for making these content

[@bennettsorrells5494]

This question has been in my mind for a while but I never really knew the answer, thanks Eck!

[@Bandog23]

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[@MinedMaker]

I think hyperspace travel in Star Wars is such a great concept because - even though it's completely made up, it makes for an incredibly accurate analogy of real life ocean-going travel/trade where one also has to rely on bureaucratic national & international organisations to provide you with the methods and information required to not die. They could have so easily have made it boring and straight-forward - glad they didn't (except for the terrible butchery of hyper-space travel in the sequels, god help us all)

[@Olochgu]

I think what's also worth mentioning is that, while it is possible for experienced navigators to travel hyperspace via a series of short jumps while keeping the danger to a minimum, this technique has pretty much died out in the known galaxy because it was no longer really necessary after the great hyperspace prospecting boom, and the only places it's still widely known and used are the very edge of known space and the unknown regions, because most people there are reliant on it.

[@kbomb1235]

I see an eckhardt’s ladder video and I have to hit “like”. I’m just a simple man who likes sci fi (Star Wars) stuff

[@Magdalena8008s]

These are the type of videos I want. I only got into SW about 7 years ago. Only got super into it the last couple. Alot of catching up. And alot of these type of world building videos are what intrest me about the universe. The nuance to everything. Details.

[@gehrigstory6674]

0:42 Yay! Another one of my questions made it into the video. Thanks, Justin.

[@EckhartsLadder]

Future question? Leave it in the comments with #askeck

[@guilhermesavoya2366]

I thought hyperlanes were discovered rather than created. Like in Babylon 5, in which gravitation from normal space affects hyperspace, hyperlanes were mapped paths of safe travelling space, avoiding the "storms and eddies of hyperspace", to use B5 jargon.

[@njrivetelite]

A Star Wars Project about explorers navigating and creating new hyperspace lanes would be cool.. all while trying to avoid whatever widespread conflicts are going on at the time.

[@Gojira-007]

#Askeck I read somewhere that the main Turbolaser turrets on ISDs could raise up a little to be able fire forward simultaneously, have you ever heard of similar lore or do you have another explanation for the line of sight problem ?

[@KaizerKlash111]

Can't the ISD pitch downwards a bit to get a clear LoS ?

[@Gojira-007]

@@KaizerKlash111 yes, but that takes time and it just doesn't make sense that the ISD can't fire all it's main guns in front of it when its primary tactic is frontal engagement and in a setting where almost all space battles take place in 2 dimensions

[@KaizerKlash111]

@@Gojira-007 yeah I agree, I don't want to say the Empire is stupid but it would be a terrible design oversight if it's guns couldn't all fire forwards

[@AshanBhatoa]

I'm pretty sure Eck has just reiterated that the main port and starboard turbolaser batteries could alter their elevation, however it's evident that the miniature of the ISD was modeled off battleships.

[@onlypeaceindeath]

They can do that already if they use the octuple barbette turbolaser design. The other type of heavy turbolasers and ion cannons are somewhat oversized.

[@SMunro]

So if you have old hyperspace routes, send a ship to transmit back if it arrives safe. It would be like sending a rsil checker ahead of the train to inspect the rail.

[@NoTimeLeft_]

I love videos about this topic It is literally the main source of transportation in my upcoming game NTL.

[@MichaelKnickle]

I would love to see you create your own galaxy adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy; it would be interesting to see your creative process and create a culture connected to the Force but also isolated from the main galaxy.

[@merafirewing6591]

I guess the reason why Palpatine got the Empire to focus a bit on exploration because he needs new planets to store his things so he doesn't have to keep paying the storage fee and that he is also running out of storage space.

[@PurposefullyIneloquent]

If you're into some reading and like Grievous, there's an ongoing amateur work chronicling his life throughout the Huk War and his time with the IGBC on Ao3 called Sahuldeem! It's been a fantastic read I've been going through for over a year now, the author deserves some support and I'd love to see the story get a shoutout! The shuttle crash is about to happen in the next chapter or two and then the transformation!

[@BugRib]

What's it called?

[@PurposefullyIneloquent]

@@BugRib It's called Sahuldeem! If you Google that word it'll pop up on the website Ao3!

[@ryanstewart2289]

If you were to blind jump from one edge of the galaxy to the opposite side you would have less than a one in a million chance of hitting anything.

[@Kalebfenoir]

The way it always seemed to me, how it worked is similar to making a path in a forest. The first time you walk through untouched forest, you might be blazing a trail: you'll find obstacles, some of which might entirely block your path through, requiring detours. Like say... a cliff. Don't wanna go off a cliff and hit the bottom. The more you use a path once it's been blazed, the easier it is: the most dangerous things usually are not blocking you, and as you repeatedly walk the path, the foliage retreats, like grass not growing over the path and trees not spreading branches that way because they get snapped off. That way a path is maintained and becomes 'stable'. In a forest you have to worry about predators, cliffs, valleys, and errant trees along your foot path. In hyperspace, it's stars, black holes, nebulae, other ships... and predators. Using S-thread boosters would be like using a lawnmower and adding flags or torches along a path: clears the way, makes it easier to 'see' , and keeps away undesirable things.

[@Codex_of_Wisdom]

#AskEck Could you do a video on stun settings? We saw it get a lot of use in Bad Batch. It seems to me that it's more effective than the kill settings, most times. They'd hit stormtroopers once and take them down, while normal bolts take 2-4 to take someone down.

[@gehrigstory6674]

It took 4 or so stun bolts to take down a Clone Commando in Season 1, Episode 14, though. Also, I think that's because stun bolts work on the nervous system of a target upon impact, which is what knocks out said target. Meanwhile, regular bolts act like regular bullets (For some reason, even though they should work a lot differently, according to the lore.), and someone can obiviously take more than one bullet before he/she/they go down, as long as that bullet doesn't hit anything vital.

[@sashabraus9422]

Hard work and dedication probably.

[@PaulCashman]

That "put a mini-black hole along the hyperspace lane" concept was explored by legendary hard-SF writer Larry Niven in his short story "The Borderland of Sol." Brilliant idea for space piracy...and even better, any evidence -- including the captured ship -- could be completely disposed of via the hole.

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

#Askeck What are the gravitational consequences of a small Moon sized space station (IE The First Death Star) moving from system to system? How much would it actually throw a system out of balance?

[@gugancapuzzi1855]

You can try something like this in universe sandbox if you know the masses and distances of everything

[@Michael-bn1oi]

Extremely little. It is a *very* small "moon"

[@charleswest782]

Surprised you didn't mention the Jedi Exploration Corp at all... especially since they are tied to existence of the Chiss Skywalkers.

[@josesanchezrodriguez1783]

How are they tied together?

[@charleswest782]

@@josesanchezrodriguez1783 basically during the Clone Wars, Anakin was sent on a mission to Chiss Space, at this time, the Chiss had barely had any contact with Republic, and had only heard the barest rumors of the Jedi, during the mission, Anakin found himself allied with none other than Thrawn, who at the time, served in the Chiss military, Thrawn of course probed Anakin with tons of questions about the Republic, the wider Galaxy, and especially the Jedi, Anakin ultimately explained to him how the Jedi Exploration Corp functions, including how they map and create new hyperlanes using the Force. Anakin was very familiar with this as prior to the Clone Wars, Anakin was on track to join the Exploration Corp himself after becoming a Jedi Knight. Thrawn took this knowledge back to the Chiss Ascendency and they founded their "Skywalkers" based on the methods used by the Jedi Exploration Corp, with the name Skywalkers even being taken because A. It kinda fits the job B. Because it was Anakin's information that made it possible. Note none of this is really canon but so far none of it has been contradicted by established canon.

[@josesanchezrodriguez1783]

@@charleswest782 Yeah, that's not really how it went down. The Skywalker corps had existed for decades before Thrawn and Anakin met, Thrawn's older sister in fact was one of them and because of that she was taken from her family when Thrawn was very young. When Thrawn and Anakin first met, the Chiss was confused by Anakin's last name since it was the same name they called their navigators.

[@Olochgu]

@@charleswest782 all of it has been contradicted by established canon. Not just did the Chiss Sky-Walkers exist centuries, possibly millennia, before Anakin was born, there were also several other organizations in the Unknown regions that had their own version of sky-walkers and offered their services to ships traversing the unknown regions (also important to note that the chiss sky-walkers were probably the most well guarded secret of the Chiss ascendancy). Anakin also never ventured to Chiss space, he met Thrawn at the very edge of known space, and didn't even make it into the unknown regions.

[@charleswest782]

@@Olochgu sorry, I guess I misremembered the book, it's been years since I read it and I was going through a rough time in my life. No need to be a dick about it.

[@XxLast__BossxX]

This is great video Ecks.

[@tendracalrissian8820]

Considering that the Republic has been around for 40000 years (not continuously, but almost), it would make sense that hyperspace lanes are pretty much settled fact. Counting galactic drift and spin, some lanes would shift, but not by much. They would be incredibly safe, and any deviations in the lane would be immediately noticed and entered into the Navigational Database of your destination world, and they would pass it along to the central database on Coruscant, which would disperse that information to all the major trade worlds, where it would be passed along to every other world. Navigational Databases could be updated within a week or two all across the galaxy. However, not every trip you want to make will neccessarily follow an ordained hyperspace lane, especially if you're operaring a pocket freighter like the Falcon, or you're running a pirate organisation preying on a lane's cargo shipping, or you're a military force tracking said pirate fleet. In such cases, you need to rely far more on an up-to-date nav database to safely plot a course through space from your starting point to your destination.

[@danielbacaoanu7450]

Great Video Eck

[@entityv.2830]

What was the most dangerous Imperial ship besides the death star

[@Elitex62]

Eclipse-class or World Devestators.

[@kardona_3]

Probably the Sun Crusher

[@Jazkal-V420]

Finally, an explanation

[@gehrigstory6674]

#AskEck Is there a potential Star Wars/Lord Of The Rings connection? In The Essential Atlas, there's a star system near Yavin called "Arda", which is the name of the world in Tolkien's works. Also, another name that Middle-Earth is referred to sometimes is "Endor". So, could The Ewoks be living in Middle-Earth, and could Tolkien's world be a part of The Star Wars Galaxy?

[@christianbryan6961]

That would be hilarious and awesome considering all the people who like to compare the 2 series’ most famous Dark Lords.

[@gehrigstory6674]

@@christianbryan6961 Imagine an "Eye of Vader", or Vader having a fondness for Jewelery?

[@gehrigstory6674]

@@christianbryan6961 Or, are you talking about Darth Sidious?

[@christianbryan6961]

@@gehrigstory6674 1. That would be awesome and a little hilarious considering Vader has no more limbs. 2. More so discussing the 2 sets of Dark Lords. Vader and Sidious from Star Wars, and Sauron and Morgoth from Middle Earth. Heck throw Count Dooku and Saruman in there.

[@christianbryan6961]

I just realized I reused the same words of hilarious and awesome in both of my replies lol

[@felixseaborn8173]

#Askech why did pelleaon move the imperial remnant out of the deep core? It seems like the deep core is a perfect position to strike at the new republic like what palpetine did in operation shadow hand.

[@jeffagain7516]

The reason that I've read, is he realized there was zero opportunity for growth being bottled up in the Deep Core and the place was also filled with a LOT of competing/backstabbing Moffs. Also, he had no desire to "strike at the New Republic" not for quite some time at least and was still awaiting the return of Uncle Thrawn. His setup at Bastion ensured he'd be (for the most part) left alone for a while also, as Mon Mothma had no desire to engage with him.

[@EckhartsLadder]

Should be explained here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHqygZmVZtV-d68

[@lasarith2]

One thing that’s never mentioned ( or I’ve seen mentioned) is if all these ships are using the same traveled hyperlanes how do they not crash into each other if carful calculated navigation jumps are necessary, can’t pre compute a sudden ship in hyperspace .

[@jiyuhong5853]

#AskEck If you could add a ship, land vehicle, or Imperial Army Unit from the Warhammer 40k universe to Star Wars what would it be? I would personally add the Imperator Somminum/Victory Class Battleships to the fleet Rhino/Leman Russ Tank/Titan to the army Custodes/Kriegers to the army

[@patrickasplund]

I always pictured a cern colider section stretching across the cosmos. It's the only tech we have that can speed things up to the speed of light (.001 less than the sold of light)

[@Bandog23]

Fascinating topic

[@willlasdf123]

What was the rationale in the old EU trying to mix with canon for speed differentials depending on routes? Were the big trade lanes faster because you could jump in and just say in hyperspace the whole way so you didnt have to jump out and and plot a new jump, or could you actually travel faster in the bigger routes? Also, I may be misremembering, but was there some like in universe conspiracy in the EU that the major trade lanes may have been cleared by the Celestialas in part pf their broader astro engineering?

[@Lafiel-gc8fn]

Ibread that the big lanes are like nice wide and flat highways, its very safe and far away from any mass shadow or anomalies or other shit that can f*ck ur ship up real bad.

[@corydorton2660]

I would like to see a video on all of the water Planet in the star wars or any syfi universe

[@macwelch8599]

Very interesting

[@mattcat83]

I like the idea of Star Wars' hyperspace lanes resulting from repeated use of warp engines from Star Trek.

[@christianbryan6961]

Like how a grass path is worn into a dirt path over time by repeatedly being walked on. But that begs the question… can Hyperspace lanes fade if they aren’t used?

[@s0ph053]

Hyperspace isn’t like that.

[@sh4d0wfl4re]

So technology-wise do we think Star Trek’s quantum slipstream drive is a prototype for a Star Wars style hyperdrive? They are both effected by mass shadows, it’s just the slipstream drive is even effected by individual molecules mass shadows (and is technically moving every atom separately through a quantum cascade effect; so it is a highly inefficient drive that requires a crazed amount of pre-plotting the course) Edit. The speeds shown for slipstream drives during Voyager put it around the speed of a class 2 hyperdrive. While borg transwarp corridors allowed for far faster and safer speeds while using a slipstream drive, as they were not only mapped out, but also protected against outside mass shadows

[@meepmeep8035]

I'm too lazy to research stuff like this myself so thank you for synthesizing it here.

[@Rathause]

The explanation for why for why it's necessary to calculate hyperspace routes is always that you need to do it so you don't fly into a planet or a star. But space is mostly empty, if you pick a random spot in the sky and keep moving forward for a million miles then the odds of you hitting anything are so miniscule that you basically have nothing to worry about.

[@Olochgu]

Hyperspace is it's own dimension with it's own contents and rules. It's not pointing in one direction and going fast.

[@onlypeaceindeath]

@@Olochgu That's kind of what it is though. Hyperspace is just tachyonic space. You can still crash into anything from a small ice asteroid, a ship or a planet, so it's clearly not some alternate dimension.

[@Necromancer4267]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Ancient Sith and their knowledge, or lack thereof about the Star Forge! Ajunta Pall alludes quite heavily to the treasure of the Ancient Sith from his era to be the Star Forge, but I have yet to see this referenced anywhere else. I don't believe anyone other than the Rakatta, Revan, and Malak had anything to do with the Star Forge, or even had any knowledge whatsoever about its existence, and yet Pall seems to state otherwise and the Star Map is located within Naga Sadow's tomb, which couldn't have been a coincidence. Continuity error? Plot thread left unresolved? #askeck

[@jasonjimerson7046]

What are hyperspace lanes? What are s-boosters? Does this spaceship get good gas milage? Thank you for answering questions! ❤

[@PvtSchlock]

Oddly, the number of Star Wars questions which arise out of playing WEG's Star Wars ttrpg is insane. A project for someone with an active discord and some spare time on their hands I suppose.

[@thelegoguy7]

#askEC video idea, Maybe go into more details about what force hyperspace navigation is!

[@jamesr736]

What's the clip at 7:15 from??

[@Gravemindefiler]

Tbh...I'd like to see a archive explaining each of the species and sub species of the star wars universe that are lesser known or rarely seen in the series. Also would be nice see as a valintines special for species which are compatible with humans in the star wars series aka star crossed lovers bit.

[@loganw1232]

#AskEck in Star Wars, how is artificial gravity created?

[@GreenDragonReviews]

The perrgil whales also go through hyperspace I'm assuming that they're not able to make adjustments while in hyperspace without dropping out so one thing I don't get in Star Wars is why hasn't a civilization put a very powerful tracking monitor on multiple Star Whales and watch where they jump if they're able to capture the information in real time and track the route that the Star Whales took to their destination they could actually map out probably several more hyperspace routes

[@Olochgu]

Purrgil just use Hyperspace very differently from the way it works on star ships. They seem to be able to actually navigate hyperspace, instead of following pre-made routes, and thus are often using routes that ships just can't traverse, or that keep shifting, making them useless for starships. It's also not unimportant to note that tracking something through hyperspace isn't easy, even if you have a tracker on it. You can determine their start and end points quite easily, but the actual route they traveled is a whole different thing. Hell, iirc even communication within hyperspace was impossible until a couple hundred years ago. Which in the grand scheme of the star wars galaxy is no time at all.

[@Mctabbycat]

Finally an explanation but what are your thoughts on Jedi brothels?

[@emperorvader283]

That poor dog is constantly being slapped.

[@briandillingham890]

#AskEck Long time listener first time caller. I was wondering what your opinion was as to why space combat is generally two-dimensional as opposed to more three-dimensional and taking advantage of the z-axis. Certain ships like the Star destroyer seem to be top heavy with guns but the underside the ship will have fewer guns and therefore would be logically a better avenue of attack.

[@kamenriderblade2099]

#AskEck Is Charric Technology superior in some ways compared to traditional Blasters? It seems like a type of projectile tech that Force-Users can't counter easily. And given that Chiss don't seem to have a abundant supply of Tabana Gas, they would make Charrics more Tabana Gas efficient in consumption. Wouldn't that make Charrics superior than normal Blasters? Or is there a reason to use Blasters over Charrics if given both options?

[@thenascarkitty8764]

Where did the last clip come from? Like what show or video. There is a nebulon B and one of the rigates explodes with 2 Y wings exploding as well.

[@austinfisher1015]

#askeck You explained a bit before about how the galaxy uses the calendar. Could you please explain in more detail how the calendar was used before the Battle of Yavin became the BC and AD of the Star Wars galaxy?

[@JimmyAgent007]

Have you ever considered worldbuilding a new IP, something SW fans can get into without having to worry about C&Ds or fanart thefts from Disney? The space opera equivalent of the SCP Foundation, so to speak.

[@Amadeus451]

Lucky break there apparently aren't any particles of any size or mass in hyperspace. Hitting a gluon (or any other subatomic particle) at faster-than-light speeds would be like a grain of sand annihilating an aircraft carrier and several cubic kilometers of material alongside it.

[@michaelschuette1743]

I want a video on the Lancer frigate I love that ship

[@swapertxking]

#AskEck What other means of FTL travel exist within star wars? Are there subspace engines that let you move about a system, or can help you save on fuel between hyperspace jumps? are there alternatives to hyperspace?

[@RedKansas]

#Askeck For someone that has really only read(listened on Audible) the Thrawn, Bane, and the available Rouge Squadron books, what is the next book or series I should listen to? Also, what is the chronology after Endor in terms of books?

[@Olochgu]

In canon, the next thing after Endor would be Aftermath, in Legends probably the x-wing novels. in both legends and canon i would just advise for the next book to just go with whatever you're feeling like. Narrowing it down on what era you're currently more interested, and whether you want more jedi or more regular people stuff will help you greatly and offer a smaller collection to choose from. For canon i can't recommend Light of the Jedi enough, for legends, if you have read the thrawn trilogy, there is also the Hand of Thrawn duology and Outbound flight, both tying into the thrawn trilogy.

[@RedKansas]

@@Olochgu great answer, thank you!

[@angryjoshosaur7909]

#Askeck Bro I cannot find a single good answer for this but what is the last thing to happen in the legends time timeline??

[@michaelbread5906]

I was just thinking about hyperspace lanes tbh. Kinda scary.

[@TrickyNick1987]

Great and informative video, as always. Who do you think was the best admiral in the Sith Empire in SWTOR? #AskEck

[@philjohnson1744]

So in the sequels when everyone is looking fer bits of old maps to find Luke or sidious, probably wouldn't work

[@АлексейМомот-щ7о]

Damn, we're just gonna find every bit of lore sequels break and make a giant spreadsheet 😂

[@gibsongray1666]

#askeck I’d like to understand about the other galaxies within and around the main Star Wars one

[@BespinGuard1]

#AskEck I've asked this question years ago but i'll change it slightly here, what about bathing in the Pool of Knowledge and drinking from the Font of Power corrupted Abeloth? Prior to doing both of those things she was just a person trying to be with her "family" but after she was corrupted by power or whatever (i dont really remember as i said its been a while). Taalon was in contact with the waters of the pool and supposedly turned into an Abeloth-like creature. Is it that theres simply physical limitations to how much power some peoples physical bodies can hold, and if so, why do they turn into Abeloth-like creatures?

[@gehrigstory6674]

#AskEck Have you seen The Darth Caedus Fan Film "Star Wars Legends: Legacy of The Force"? I hope we can get a review on it, and other fan films.

[@Darth_Traitorous]

Can you not use hyper space in Star wars and just use pure thrusters on your star ship at maximum power to get from one place to another?

[@sdfopsdmsdofjmp7863]

Yes. Thats how they get to Tatooine in Episode 1

[@Sypitz]

Mando s2(?) had an episode with this. It didn’t go well.

[@gehrigstory6674]

​@@sdfopsdmsdofjmp7863No, they did use a hyperdrive to get to Tatooine, just one that was too damaged to get to Coruscant, instead.

[@gehrigstory6674]

@Darth_Traitorous Yes, but it would be very, _very_ slow. It is said that travel to Anaxes from Coruscant, without hyperdrives (Which are both very close to each other on a galaxy map) took several generations to complete. The Millenium Falcon did it between Hoth, and Bespin in The Empire Strikes Back, but it took weeks to do it, even though Bespin was just one star system away from Hoth.

[@TyeMorrisVlog]

7:55 “Ecksplanation” 😝

[@bigdaddy4043]

#Askeck, What general admiral or any other military leader from the Republic vs Cis war did you think had the best tactics, and would you do a break down on what you think their greatest battle is. (there is a good chance you already did this. I watched a lot of your vids in 2020 but am just getting back to this awesome channel)

[@jon6309]

I wonder how it was possible for the Star Wars Galaxy to map the entire galaxy. I know here on Earth we really didn’t survey the Milly Way Galaxy to know how it looks like but scientists observed other galaxies visible and assumed how the Milky Way looks like. For Star Wars I think it would be really trippy when it comes to measuring distance between regions in the galaxy. A planet in the outerrim but is located in a main hyperspace lane like the Hydian way will feel much closer and travel much quickly to Coruscant compared to an inner rim planet that is not well connected to main hyperspace lanes. Even though technically it’s more distant!

[@Olochgu]

The answer is that they didn't. Only a small part of the main star wars galaxy has been explored, what we know as the outer rim is not the rim of the galactic disc so to speak. Wild space and the unknown regions both still belong to the main galaxy yet are almost entirely unmapped. Not to mention the millions, probably billions, of planets within the known galaxy that are still undiscovered/unexplored, because the number of stars in a galaxy is just so incomprehensibly huge.

[@jon6309]

@@Olochgu I agree. I believe it was mentioned that there was around 1.3 million member worlds under the republic before the clone wars which is pretty small compared to the hundreds of billions of stars that made up the galaxy yet it was the largest known institution of government within the known Galaxy that stretched in every region. I am guessing that if a planet within a sector had no known connecting hyperspace route to the nearest planet part of the galactic network of routes it would exist in isolation but simultaneously with the known galaxy without each other ever knowing the other existed!

[@tonyportcullis488]

And now i know. TY

[@EmptyshBavaria]

#AskEck What are the different speeds for starships? The DS1 circled around Yavin in 30 minutes. The rebel starfighters reached it after 15min. They then accelerate to attack speed. That would imply a speed of some 100.000 clicks per hours. However, when they fly through the trench (without atmosphere), it looks more like a real world jet fighter speeds. How can Star Wars starships cross planetary distance in a few minutes, while still fighting at visual range (see Ahsoka when finding the Eye of Sion or when Bo-Katan and Mando are attacked by Tie Interceptors). Many thanks in advance, cheers!

[@Kingdomkey123678]

There is no explanation for why ships fight at visual range in either canon or legends. It’s just a rule of the universe, BVR Combat never caught on for major engagements for some unknown reason. Some head-cannon that at some point in the distant past of the Star Wars Galaxy, stealth technology got so good that the only way to shoot something was to see it with your own two eyes. Of course that doesn’t cover all the sensors and lock one we see in the films, but maybe those are also optical in nature. As for speeds there were combat and cruising speeds in space, cruising speeds are generally what you would use for crossing solar systems while traveling at sub-light speeds. However cruising would be far too fast for combat, you’d blow right past what ever you were trying to hit. So you would have to switch to combat speed which would be far slower than cruise. “Accelerate to combat speed” was likely said because they didn’t think about this in the films’ production. Though ironically in a strictly scientific sense acceleration is only the action of changing speed, it’s only among the laymen that it means to speed up. So I guess it’s still technically correct

[@EmptyshBavaria]

@@Kingdomkey123678 In the 2003 game "Freelancer" ships had cruising engines. Much faster than usual combat speeds, took a couple of seconds to charge and weapons were deactivated. I would like to see some similar explanation within the Star Wars universe. Otherwise ships would approach with extremely high cruising speed, fire everything they have and take off at cruising speed again, noo need for trench runs or dog fights. In any case, thank you very much for taking your time for a reply :)

[@Kingdomkey123678]

@@EmptyshBavaria If you did that at cruising speed you wouldn’t be able to evade any return fire. The G-Forces of changing directions at such speeds would turn any organic pilot into pink mist in their cockpit Droid operated AA existed so it could easily react to and return fire to a ship making a strike at cruising speed

[@otminealnamer1385]

#askeck What are your opinions on Galactic Battlegrounds? Particularly with the Expanding Fronts mod. I know you feature a lot of EaW in your videos, which I also play a fair bit of, but I gotta say ground battles in EaW are rather terrible via the lack of fine unit control(like formations and stances) and shoddy pathfinding not even the best map design could help. To me, this is where GB really shines, but sadly seems rather forgotten compared to EaW.

[@matthewbreytenbach4483]

Battlegrounds is awesome! Brutal, but awesome.

[@kobblestonemc]

#askeck I remember your video discussing the ranks in the Imperial military. What were the specifications of the ranks in the Rebellion’s army and navy?

[@GeneralWenke4660]

#AskEck Hey I was wondering what would happen if the rebels had a Bellator instead of the lucerhulk that was shown at the battle of the first Death Star?

[@gehrigstory6674]

Not much would be different, because The Death Star would still one-shot it, just like it did The Lucrehulk. The Bellator might've gotten some firepower off on The Death Star, but nothing that would destroy it, especially before The Death Star's superlaser comes online.

[@timmy18135]

Is this the same as the gyro cosmic relitivator in buck Rogers?

[@shanehudson3995]

I'm wondering how thousands of ships using the same route don't conflict with each other.

[@Olochgu]

Light of the Jedi actually provided an answer to that. Because Hyperspace is an alternate dimension, and because of a whole lot of fake science mumbo jumbo, ships create their own little pocket within hyperspace, which makes it virtually impossible to encounter another ship while traveling. At least as long as you are traveling by the conventional rules of hyperspace travel.

[@andrewl8247]

Ships vs break down from the tie animated short, can the rebels actually fend off and escape the imperial ambush.

[@lucasbosier6808]

I wonder if like the nightsisters riding the pirgil, someone just put tracking beacons on them and followed their chain.

[@splatoonistproductions5345]

I am curious how often these hyperspace lanes change, at least when you consider that a galaxy will move around its core (black hole) like planets to a star.

[@Olochgu]

Depends on where you are. Within the areas of the star wars galaxy we are usually moving, it doesn't seem like there is much movement at all, or at least it's so gradual that routes can easily be traveled for months without an update. But in the unknown regions for example, we know that Hyperspace lanes are not usually consistent for more than a few weeks. Apparently it's because of a series of supernovas that went off eons ago that made hyperspace in the area very shifty. That's why the civilizations within the unknown regions are so reliant on force enhanced navigators, like the chiss sky-walkers or the void-guides, for quick traversal. Otherwise they had to rely on jump-by-jump travel, only making very short hyperspace jumps, which was much slower and came at increased risk.

[@Mark_Jonas]

Where does that map come from?

[@chinaunhinged1970]

#Askeck What makes Alzoc III unique in the Star Wars galaxy, and why would it be so strong in the force to grow mammoth caves of kyber crystals?

[@Tyrone-v2r]

#Askeck How does interstellar communication work in Star Wars?

[@AshanBhatoa]

Hyperwave transcivers.

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

I was literally thinking this earlier. Guess they are reading my mind again or manipulating my thoughts

[@zkeletonz001]

I wonder how much mass a real world object would need in order to affect hyperspace.

[@Kenibus]

#AskEck I was wondering if you’d go into detail on any artifacts/relics/shiny things Palpatine had?

[@Cookiekopter]

#Askeck is everything in hyperspace closer to each other relative to realspace? Because if you run the calculations assuming that it's not the case then you would need to travel through the entiee galaxy several thousand times to have any remote chances of hitting anything due to how empty space is

[@CurrentlyDuck1]

I remember reading that the Star Wars galaxy is much denser than our own. There are also old shipwrecks and space creatures floating out there, not to mention starlets planets wandering the darkness that are undetectable with our earthly technology.

[@Cookiekopter]

@@CurrentlyDuck1 Well I'm gonna ignore the implications on how such density would affect the structure of the galaxy if not outright make it impossible to exist as we know it. Thanks anyway, do you remember in what media was this mentioned? It's fine if you don't really

[@abdullahiaderinto5153]

How do blasters work

[@my_karubah6573]

Legit question here, how much does a lightsaber blade weigh? And how much does the hilt add to it?

[@thomasciarlariello]

Anime "Project Ako: Uncivil Wars" and BBC "Vogon Constructors"?

[@classicalricky]

#askeck how different do you think the star wars movies would have been had John Williams not been the music composer